He President of the United States, Donald Trump, This Monday has Enforced in its commitment to the commercial war And, in fact, he has increased his fury toMenAzar to China with additional gravels of 50%And everything despite Growing voiceseven allies, who ask for a pause or a rhythm change in the tariff strategy that has caused an earthquake in the global economy and appears to the US and the world to the recession.
The climbing with China He has arrived in a message in Truth Social and one day after Beijing promised to respond with 34% tariffs to those of that same percentage that Trump announced that he would impose the Asian giant as of this Thursday. “If China does not withdraw them immediately, they will be immediately replicated with new and substantially higher tariffs,” said Trump, who has set that new threat to a 50% additional from day 9. In addition, he announced that if a withdrawal for this Tuesday is not produced It will cancel any negotiation with Beijing.
It is the last save that underlines the Dangers of this moment of tension and volatility Already by the clouds, as has been demonstrated on Monday, when a rumor (then tested without a real base) that suggested that Trump raised a 90 -day pause For tariffs to all countries except for China, in accordance with a suggestion that several economic allies have made.
The phrase, which has been attributed to Kevin Hasset, economic advisor of the White House, at first has caused hopeful increases in the bags, but have been immediately followed by declines when it has been proven that the advisor had not made the statement.
The White House has assured that it was “FALSE NEWS”. And Trump himself has replicated a Fox Business segment where the presenter said: “President TRump no goes to sell ”.
What is black on white is Trump’s determination to continue with his Explosive bet. In several messages that has hung early in Truth Social, the Republican has insisted on defending the massive universal tariffs of 10% who entered into force last Thursday and those he has called “reciprocal”, which will begin to be applied this Thursday.
“The US has the opportunity to do something that should have been done decades ago. Let’s not be weak. Let’s not be stupid, let’s not be a “panican” (A new party based on weak and stupid people)“, Has written.” Let’s be strong, brave and patients and greatness will be the result. “
Both Trump and his advisors have also defended the tariff strategy and an element that is taking all US business partners to the negotiating table. The president himself has talked about the conversation that this Monday has kept on the phone with his Japanese counterpart And from the first of the meetings he will have in person, because he also receives this Monday at the White House to the prime minister of Israel, Binyamine Netanyahu.
“Countries around the world are talking to us. They are fixing us hard but fair parameters,” he said.
Growing dissent
The Trump closure It clashes with the growing voices, including allies, who point to the problematic of their strategy and ask him to go back. One of the outstanding has been Bill Ackman, the Milmillonario Investor that he supported his last presidential campaign, and that this Sunday he hung in X a long message where, although he applauded Trump’s intention to “fix a system of global tariffs that has put a disadvantage to the US”, he warned that “mass and disproportionate tariff process of destroying confidence in the country CHow business partner, as a place to do business and as a market to invest capital. ”
Ackerman called in his message to establish l90 -day pause (The same period that later ran like gunpowder in the false message). And warned that Trump “is losing the confidence of business leaders around the world “. “We headed to a nuclear economic winter, self -life, and we should start looking for refuge, ”he wrote.
Musk and the Republican Party
Another Trump ally even more important for the president, Elon Musk, He is also breaking with the president, Tesla’s father and Space X has hung in X a video of Milton Friedman defending free trade. That dart that underlines its rupture with Trump on the tariff theme arrives after Musk spent the weekend colliding with Increasing tension with Pete Navarro, the president’s main commercial advisorwhose qualifications Musk questioned insultingly.
In addition, in a video intervention this weekend at the Annual Liga Congress, Matteo Salvini’s far -right party in Italy, Musk expressed his desire for whate eeuu and Europe can establish a narrower commercial alliance with “zero tariffs” In the future, “effectively creating a free trade zone. That would be my hope, which I hope will happen,” he said.
Also in him Republican party Cracks open, unusual with the leader from his return to the oval office. Last Thursday in Congress Republican Senator Chuck Grassley joined a Democratic Senator to present a Law proposal that would require Congress to approve any tariff of the President in the 60 days of its adoption. Although it is difficult for the initiative to see the light, because it needs 60 votes and that would force it to support it 13 Republicans, for Saturday there were already seven conservatives who supported it. A Republican who will present a parallel law proposal in the House of Representatives has assured that if the bags continue to fall the initiative can be done “very viable.”
